The day begins in darkness, lit only by street lamps. As dawn breaks, a pale blue light reveals a quiet line of monks in orange robes moving through the streets of ...

Convicted former high-ranking monks will face charges for wearing monk robes to attend a religious ceremony held at Wat Saket temple, says the Sangha Supreme Council of Thailand. Sipboworn Kaewngam, ...

They rely on donations of plastic, which can then be recycled into new robes. So far the monks have crushed 88,185 pounds of plastic in two years aiming to curb the litter in the surrounding Chao ...

While Border Patrol agents descended on southeast Louisiana last week in immigration sweeps, a humbler group of men quietly ...

Two Buddhist monks walked into a rice shop in Southern Thailand, stole the shop owners iphone and hid it under their orange robes. The two men went into the shop under the pretence of seeking donation ...

~ Some temples have introduced cafes, art galleries and other innovations to reach out to young people. TOKYO -- Japanese monks and nuns hit the catwalk in Tokyo on Saturday in a bid to spread ...

A large-scale Bhagavad Gita recital, dubbed 'Panch Lakkho Konthe Gita Path,' took place in Kolkata with lakhs of participants ...

Amid chants of Lord Krishna’s name and the blowing of conch shells, lakhs of devotees, including sadhus and sadhvis from ...